We Reads Podcast

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned

The House Archives Built: & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility, Dorothy Berry

The Little Fur Family, Margaret Wise Brown

The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton

The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wolfgang von Goethe

The American Girl series

Palaces of Pleasure, Lee Jackson

The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis

The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Morès, Sergio Luzzatto

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch, Miles Harvey

James, Percival Everett

London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe

Banvard's Folly, 13 Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Inanimity, and Rotten Luck, Paul Collins

Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, Chris Jennings

The Great Cat Massacre, Robert Darnton

Podcasts

In Our Time

The Fall of Civilizations

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned

The House of Gardenias, Isabel Cañas (2026 Release)

Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas

The Possession of Alba Diaz, Isabel Cañas

The Tainted Cup series, Robert Jackson Bennett (2026 Release for A Trade of Blood)

Triage, Claudia Rankine

Changing Gender, Susan Stryker

Cemetery Boys: Espíritu, Aiden Thomas

Hell Followed With Us, Andrew Joseph White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White

You’re No Better, Andrew Joseph White

The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson

The Unhaunting, Micaiah Johnson

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Victorian Psycho, Virginia Feito

Off the Reservation, Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo

Deadbeat, Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson

The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells

Year of the Mer, L.D. Lewis

The Fist of Memory, Wole Talabi

The Last Thorn, Talia Hibbert

The Last Contract of Isako, Fonda Lee

The Green Bone Saga, Fonda Lee

The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean

The Girl with a Thousand Faces, Sunyi Dean

The Intrigue, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Deathly Fates, Tesia Tsai

Sublimation, Isabel J. Kim

The Felicity Complex, August Clark

Metal From Heaven, August Clark

Against Purity, Alexis Shotwell

Liberation is Other People, Alexis Shotwell

Weavingshaw, Heba Al-Wasati

Immorata, Ava Reid

Bodies of Magic, Freya Marske

Capital, Karl Marx

Disorienting Phenomenology, Queer Space and Trans Life, Eden Kincaid

As You Wake, Break the Shell, Becky Chambers

The Red Winter, Cameron Sullivan

The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin

Disabling Intelligences, Rua Williams

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned

Books Mentioned

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

Lord of the Rings trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkien

Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien 

Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Murderbot series, Martha Wells

Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries, Charlaine Harris

Big Little Lies, by Leanne Moriarty

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

Slough House, Mick Herron

Codename Villanelle, Luke Jennings

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Foundation, Issac Asimov

The Expanse series, James S. A. Corey

The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin

Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang

Brown Sisters trilogy, Talia Hibbert

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman

Angels in America (play), Tony Kushner

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

A Master of Djinn,  P. Djèlí Clark

TV Shows Mentioned

Bridgerton

Rings of Power

Wheel of Time

Succession

Murderbot

True Blood

Big Little Lies 

Little Fires Everywhere

Slow Horses

Killing Eve

Pachinko

Community

Legend of Vox Machina

Foundation

The Expanse

Three-Body Problem

Star Trek

Critical Role 

Dimension 20 

Legend of Vox Machina

Movies Mentioned

No Country for Old Men

Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Godfather

Jurassic Park

V for Vendetta

The Hobbit 

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Dungeons & Dragons

Battleship

Star Trek

Star Wars

Arrival

The Hating Game

Call Me By Your Name

If Beale Street Could Talk

Games Mentioned

Dungeons & Dragons

Battleship

Baldur's Gate 

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned

Series

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland

The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Earthsea series, Ursula K. Le Guin

Weetzie Bat books, Francescia Lia Block

Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer

Broken Earth trilogy, N. K. Jemison

The Jade Citytrilogy, Fonda Lee

Inheritance trilogy, N. K. Jemison

Machineries of Empire series, Yoon Ha Lee

Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb series), Tamsyn Muir

Standalone

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Watership Down, Richard Adams

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Gail Carson Levine

The Monster at the End of this Book, Jon Stone

Book of Greek Myths, Ingri d'Aulaire

Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede

Mythology, Edith Hamilton

We Are in a Book, Mo Willems

The Shy Little Kitten, Cathleen Schurr

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemison

Uprooted, Naomi Novick

The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison

Nine Fox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

The Luckiest Lady in London, Sherry Thomas

Kindred, Octavia Butler

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

Emergent Strategy, adrienne marie brown

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks

The Art Lover, Carole Maso

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Angels in America, Tony Kushner

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

Zami, Audre Lorde

Infinity Alchemist, Kacen Callender

Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab

Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman

Stardust Grail, Yume Kitase

Babel, R. F. Kuang

Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou

Rejection, Tony Tulathimutte

Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

Sexuality Beyond Consent, Avgi Saketopoulou

Gender Without Identity, Ann Pellegrini & Avgi Saketopoulou

The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Kulti, Mariana Zapata

From Lukov with Love, Mariana Zapata

Heated Rivalry, Rachel Reid

Red, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

Saint Death’s Daughter, C. S. E. Cooney

Hangman, Maya Binyam

The Town of Babylon, Alejandro Varela

Authors

Gail Carson Levine

Joseph Campbell

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Carmen Maria Machado

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned

Series 

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch series), Ann Leckie

The Josephine B Trilogy, Sandra Gulland

Divergent Series, Veronica Roth

Brown Sisters, Talia Hibbert

Hellraiser, Clive Barker

Standalone 

Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Rivera Garcia

Model Home, Rivers, Solomon

Starling House, Alix Harrow

Ace of Spades, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

The Wayhaven Chronicles, Misha Jenkins

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna

The Town of Babylon, by Alejandro Varela

Only a Monster, Vanessa Len

Never Sweeter, Charlotte Stein

A Study in Ugliness, (short story) H. Pueyo

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The Stardust Grail Yume Kitasei  

The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

Kulti, Mariana Zapata

The Memory Collectors, Dete Meserve 

The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff Vandermeer

Podcasts

Fated Mates history episode 

Video Games (new show notes boss; UNLOCKED)

When The Night Comes, Lunaris Games

Our Life, EB Patch Games

Ebon Light, Underbliss

Baldur’s Gate 3

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Mass Effect

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Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned
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N. K. Jemisin, almost all of her books, but especially The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Ursula K. Le Guin, specifically Earthsea & “The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas”

Jacques Lacan

Sigmund Freud

Jean Laplanche

Avgi Saketopoulou

The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, R. F. Kuang

All Systems Red (the Murderbot series), Martha Wells

“Signal” by L. D. Lewis

Gary Shteyngart

Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyen

Sky Daddy, Kate Folk

Crash, J. G. Ballard

Worlds of Fantasy (magazine)

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Harlan Ellison

Digimon

Pokémon

Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

Starship Troopers (film)

Lilith’s Brood (the Xenogenesis Trilogy), Octavia Butler

Baby-Sitter’s Club, Ann M. Martin

Sweet Valley High, Francine Pascal

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Oscar Wilde

Virginia Woolf

E. M. Forster

James Baldwin

Patricia Highsmith

Carson McCullers

Jack, A. M. Homes

The End of Alice, A.M. Homes

The Pout Pout Fish, Deborah Diesen

The Fellowship of the Rings (Lord of the Rings trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien

“Diggin’ on You,” TLC

Stephen Graham Jones

Model Home, Rivers Solomon

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Resources Mentioned

We Reads 

We Reads on Bookshop.org

Stonewall Book Awards 

We Here Community School

We Here: Community Study 

Redbud Books

Borders (RIP)

Walden Books (RIP)

Barnes & Noble

Public Libraries (shoutout to the Louisville Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library)

Credits

Hosts: Sofia Leung, nicholae cline, and Jen Brown

Producer: Imani Spence

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